The Patriot!

[Minky]

No, this is not a thread for lovers of Mel Gibson, but rather an excuse for me to show off my latest ebay find. ;D

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present for your viewing pleasure....the Patriot:




Now I know what you're thinking...Damn That's Fugly! I thought so too before I got the thing, and actually bought it with the intention of reselling it....but after gassing it up and shooting it, I changed my mind . It's made by Kokusai and from the research I've done it's a very rare gun. It takes gas charged into the mag and uses a GBB operation, so the bolt blows back with every shot. It's loud, it's got kick, it's got range, and oh yes....it's full auto. Bwahahahah!

Can't wait to show this puppy off at the next event, but I'll have to watch out for Ballista's attempts to steal it, hehe.

[SickPointe]

Bleh that gun is butt ugly. But good find. Rare, but I've seen the Korean springer junk.

[Blorfo]

I've seen one of those (real steel) at a gun show before. Nifty.

[Robo]

cool minkster, cant wait to see/shoot it

[Hadoken]

Wow, the look of that beast is really starting to grow on me. I've never really liked the look of the Patriot and even when you showed me pics of it over on ebay I thought "ugh!, that's one ugly mofo!"

But now after seeing your photos of it it's totally changed my mind. Favorite part about it has to be the chunky metal foregrip with textured front end. Looks so..I dunno how to put it really..raw and mechanical. I love it!

Can't wait to shoot that sucker!

And of course I have to add: You're a lucky bastard! Which is pretty much turning into a tradition every time you surprise me with your latest ebay find.

*sigh*

Now my quest for classic airsoft continues.

[Ballista]

It's the Clear and Present Danger gun! How realistic does it feel? Are all the parts movable and crisp/realistic?

[Minky]

As far as I can tell everything works like it should, except the ejection port cover always stays in the open position. Maybe I'm doing something wrong that it won't stay closed...

The charging handle, forward assist, sight windage and elevation adjustments....everything works and is metal. Pretty much the only plastic on the gun is the two receiver halves, which are made of some tough ABS I guess. The weight is nice, don't know how realistic it is but it's plenty heavy for me:). The magazine alone weighs nearly as much, if not more than my G19, and I'm pretty sure it uses the shell of an actual M16 mag.

I'll find out how realistic the gun is soon enough, as I want to stick a real stock on the thing. I'm thinking an M4 style adjustable stock would look nice on it. I thought about adding a carry handle mounted red dot sight as well, since all it has now is the rear peep sight and a small pin stuck on the front of the carry handle, which is about as accurate as shooting with your eyes closed.

[Knief]

looks like they have another one for sale, if anyones interested.

cgi.ebay.com/ws/ebayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1845960075&indexURL=0&photoDisplayType=2#ebaylargephotohosting

[Viking]

See this is what happens when Colt toys with the design they stole from Armalite hehe. Anyway Minky put one of them carbine side folding stocks on it! It would be leet! It is already leet, heck I would of bought the other one just because how rare it is if I hadn’t already made plans to buy a M1 Carbine (airsoft) and a M500 Cruiser (airsoft).

[napalm113]

I made a simolar gun from a kwc sprong powered m16, It's an m16a3 pistol, i has a flat top (custom made with with plastic and apoxy), and no front sight (grinded off), just that thing that's like a front sight but with out the actual sighting part. a 6 inch barrle. and a stupid looking full stock, it needs a colapasable one.